Players usually see their reputations grow when they’re injured – that’s certainly been the case with Nicolas Jackson, whose absence has seen Chelsea lack any cutting edge at all. While he’s away, his reputation has gone from “talented and misfiring” to “the second coming of Gerd Muller” if you just follow how keen fans are to see him.
Fellow attacker Noni Madueke went down injured at the same time as Jackson, but instead of being hailed the opposite is happening. Links to a move away from Chelsea in the summer are growing more frequent.
“It’s understood that Madueke is now one of a number of players who Chelsea will allow to move on in the summer,” Graeme Bailey wrote just a few days ago for TBR Football.